Advanced Member jimhatama Posted July 29, 2021 Advanced Member Report Share Posted July 29, 2021 Smart materials layers should like like normal layers with blending modes. The inability to add AO map in smart material kinda depressing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member MarkC Posted July 29, 2021 Member Report Share Posted July 29, 2021 3D Coat automatically adds AO layer when you select a smart material that needs it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member jimhatama Posted July 29, 2021 Author Advanced Member Report Share Posted July 29, 2021 I mean custom AO not baked by coat 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member sprayer Posted July 29, 2021 Advanced Member Report Share Posted July 29, 2021 46 minutes ago, jimhatama said: I mean custom AO not baked by coat You mean to use AO as mask? is it big difference between AO and concave on one object? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member jimhatama Posted July 30, 2021 Author Advanced Member Report Share Posted July 30, 2021 I mean that I have material with albedo, roughness, metallness and AO. So I can create smart material with them. But I see no way to add AO in this mix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member sprayer Posted July 30, 2021 Advanced Member Report Share Posted July 30, 2021 (edited) I heard there will be soon node editor for smart materials, and you can mix AO with albedo. For now you can mix in photoshop and put texture to color slot. Also i think you can use inverted AO as opacity with black color on second layer, i think it will be similar result Edited July 30, 2021 by sprayer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member jimhatama Posted July 30, 2021 Author Advanced Member Report Share Posted July 30, 2021 3 minutes ago, sprayer said: I heard there will be soon node editor for smart materials, and you can mix AO with albedo. For now you can mix in photoshop and put texture to color slot thats not only abt AO. Its abt general workflow. The Smart maetrial should provide standard layer stack with different maps to add and blending modes, like in substance so ppl could mix whatever they want Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Solution sprayer Posted July 30, 2021 Advanced Member Solution Report Share Posted July 30, 2021 1 minute ago, jimhatama said: thats not only abt AO. Its abt general workflow. The Smart maetrial should provide standard layer stack with different maps to add and blending modes, like in substance so ppl could mix whatever they want Many render engines do not have that slot, and not many people using it because you baking on model AO according light and object position it is more accurate than in material. I wrote in previous post workaround Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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